Question 1

During the medieval period a form of neighbourhood watch existed and their duties were to:

Accepted Answer

A) raise a 'hue and cry' 
B) make sure all cattle and sheep were branded 
C) help to keep the peace 
D) monitor the morals of all young women in the village A,C

Question 2

In what year was the 'new police' established by Sir Robert Peel?

Accepted Answer

A) 1789 
B) 1829 
C) 1910 
D) 1939 B

Question 3

What year was the post of public prosecutor created?

Accepted Answer

A) 1110 
B) 1500 
C) 1879 
D) 1969 C

Question 4

There was a substantial prison-building programme at the end of the eighteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The prison is a relatively modern invention

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

During the period between 1850 and 1950 the army could 'read the riot act' and this would mean that:

Accepted Answer

A) people could wave a white flag to indicate they were not part of the protest 
B) after one hour the offence of 'riot' became punishable by death 
C) a magistrate would actually read part of the 1715 Act 
D) protesters would have one hour in which to disperse

Question 7

Why did the idea of supervision of offenders arise?

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

What period saw the establishment the formal criminal justice system we know today?

Accepted Answer

A) between the mid-sixteenth and mid eighteenth centuries 
B) the medieval period 
C) 1066 onwards 
D) the Victorian era

Question 9

Keeping order and in preventing and investigating crime we have always relied upon a police force, or something that looks like a police force.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Although property crimes rose in the second half of the eighteenth century and were significantly higher at the close of the century than they were at its beginning, by contrast, homicide appears to drop markedly. Why was this?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

Peel's 'new police' officers were dressed in blue to:

Accepted Answer

A) make them all look the same 
B) save money 
C) help remain hidden at night 
D) distinguish them from the scarlet of the military

Question 12

What is the difference between: 'imprisonment' and 'penal servitude' ?

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

All sections of the community welcomed the 'new police'

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

By 1950 public trust in policing was extremely high due to:

Accepted Answer

A) the end of the second world war 
B) the election of a new Government 
C) the acquisition of legitimacy by an institution that was both widely resisted and largely distrusted when first introduced 
D) declining faith in the idea of rehabilitation

Question 15

What did the German sociologist Norbert Elias refers to as the 'civilising process'?

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

To what does the 'Bloody Code' refer?

Accepted Answer

A) Capital punishment 
B) the large number of statutes passed during the eighteenth century which contained the penalty of death 
C) the 1752 Murder Act

Question 17

After the War of Independence in the 1770s, America no longer represented a potential destination for Britain's convicts and so they were housed in large 'hulks' moored off the south coast of England.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Police forces of the nineteenth century gradually acquired a very broad array of functions, including:

Accepted Answer

A) fire and ambulance services 
B) helping to deliver babies 
C) controlling traffic 
D) licensing and regulating cabs

Question 19

Which of the following are known as approaches to police history?

Accepted Answer

A) Whig 
B) Orthodox 
C) Revisionist 
D) Radical 
E) Hard cop

Exam 2: Crime and Punishment in History

During the medieval period a form of neighbourhood watch existed and their duties were to:

In what year was the 'new police' established by Sir Robert Peel?

What year was the post of public prosecutor created?

There was a substantial prison-building programme at the end of the eighteenth century.

The prison is a relatively modern invention

During the period between 1850 and 1950 the army could 'read the riot act' and this would mean that:

Why did the idea of supervision of offenders arise?

What period saw the establishment the formal criminal justice system we know today?

Keeping order and in preventing and investigating crime we have always relied upon a police force, or something that looks like a police force.

Although property crimes rose in the second half of the eighteenth century and were significantly higher at the close of the century than they were at its beginning, by contrast, homicide appears to drop markedly. Why was this?

Peel's 'new police' officers were dressed in blue to:

What is the difference between: 'imprisonment' and 'penal servitude' ?

All sections of the community welcomed the 'new police'

By 1950 public trust in policing was extremely high due to:

What did the German sociologist Norbert Elias refers to as the 'civilising process'?

To what does the 'Bloody Code' refer?

After the War of Independence in the 1770s, America no longer represented a potential destination for Britain's convicts and so they were housed in large 'hulks' moored off the south coast of England.

Police forces of the nineteenth century gradually acquired a very broad array of functions, including:

Which of the following are known as approaches to police history?